The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 51

The old woman sent after it at once, and when she questioned the magpies the crippled one was the only one who knew where the three bulrushes were.

Who acts: old woman, crippled one, only one, three bulrushes · What happens: send, question, be, know · To what, where: old woman, magpies, only one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, crippled one, only one, three bulrushes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 questioned	nsubj
4	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 woman	acl
5	after	after	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 sent	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 questioned	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 questioned	cc
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 questioned	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 questioned	nsubj
13	questioned	question	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 magpies	det
15	magpies	magpie	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 questioned	obj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 one	det
17	crippled	crippled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 one	amod
18	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 one	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 one	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 one	det
21	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 one	amod
22	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 questioned	parataxis
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 knew	nsubj
24	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 one	acl:relcl
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	29 were	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 bulrushes	det
27	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 bulrushes	nummod
28	bulrushes	bulrush	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 were	nsubj
29	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 knew	ccomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 questioned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	send	participle		the old woman not said here		after magpie	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	question speech: other	past	the old woman		the magpies		vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magpie=Recipient
3	is a	past	the crippled one	the only one			tree rules
4	know	past	the only one				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	be	past	the three bulrushes				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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